166 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-101, silence through bars 102-108, ride through bars 109-112, hi-hat through bars 113-119 and ride through bars 120-126, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-19 and 21, and 32 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------r-------|
BD |x---------------|3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 112, 128, 136, 140 and 164.
It cuts the song into 35 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
174 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
166 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 112, 128, 136, 140 and 164.